Enduring When Obeying Hurts

The key to joy is faith in God’s future grace — that is, being satisfied in all that God promises to be for us. 

Cherish the goodness of the Lord, fear straying from him, flee from every sin, and take refuge in him. 

This is the gospel: Even though you have sinned greatly, nevertheless there is a future and a hope. Fear not! 

How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10727/16812248.gif" height="1" width="1"/> 

In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10727/17151756.gif" height="1" width="1"/> 

David Mathis | The Christian life may require daily sacrifice, but the engine that drives our self-denial is resilient joy. Like Jesus, we endure for the joy set before us. 

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